Michael Anthony "Mike" Ramos (born August 5, 1957) is an American lawyer. He is San Bernardino County, California's 35th district attorney. He was first elected in 2002 and is the first elected Hispanic district attorney in San Bernardino County. He was defeated in June 2018 by Jason Anderson, former prosecutor and board member of Ontario, California, who will take office in January 2019. Ramos has been called "denier innocence" for insisting that the guilty person is actually guilty and letting a real criminal go unpunished.
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Early life and education
The eldest of three children, Ramos was born in Redlands Community Hospital in Redlands, California, in 1957. Ramos attended Redlands High School. After graduating from high school in 1976, Ramos earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of California, Riverside, in 1980 and a Doctor of Law degree from Citrus Belt Law School at Riverside in 1988. He was accepted at the California bar on in 1989. Ramos's government service began in 1980, when he started as a group counselor with the Experimental Department and then became a probation officer. He started his career with the District Attorney's Office in June 1989, as deputy district attorney in the Main Crime Unit.
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San Bernardino County District Attorney
Ramos was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006 and 2010. He served as president of the California District Bar Association and as chair of the Correction and Reform Committee for the National District Bar Association.
Family
Ramos has been married to his wife, Gretchen for 30 years. He has two grown children, Michael and Michele, and a grandson, Christian. His grandparents came to the United States from Mexico, and his father served in the United States Marine Corps.
Problem
Death penalty
Ramos supports the death penalty. In November 2012, Ramos conducted a massive campaign against Proposition 34, also known as the SAFE California Act. Proposition 34 seeks to replace California's death penalty with a life sentence with no chance of parole as the maximum penalty for murder. The initiative to lift the death penalty failed with a narrow margin of 52.8% to 47.2%. In 2016, Ramos co-led the Reform Committee for the Detention of Death Penalty for Proposition 66 that seeks to defend the death penalty in California. On November 9, 2016, this initiative graduated with 51.13% of the vote.
Victim rights
Ramos was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve in the Victims of the Governor's Victims and the Government Claims Board on January 23, 2004. After being elected for his first term, one of Ramos's first actions was to place a supervisor responsible for victim services in his executive staff, to the role of the chief, and creating the Victim Service Unit of the Bureau. In 2013, during the Victims of Crime Victims Week, Ramos announces that his office has been contracted with One Call, an automated telephone system, in an attempt to reach victims of crime and provide them with information about their rights and possible compensation. Victims of crimes that provide law enforcement with a landline phone number will get a recorded message informing them that they have rights under the 2008 State Victims of Rights Act, endorsed by voters as Proposition 9. This is most often referred to as Marsy's Law.
Public corruption
In a remarkable rendition of Ramos, a high-profile criminal case against four men collapsed in September 2017, with one newspaper later referring to the prosecutor as "boondoggle."
Ramos and then Attorney General Jerry Brown announced in 2011 a prosecution of corruption against Paul Biane, former District Superintendent of the 2nd; Jim Erwin, former chief of staff for the 3rd District Superintendent Neil Derry; Mark Kirk, former chief of staff for the 4th District Supervisor Gary Ovitt; and Jeff Burum, general partner with Colonies Partners LP.
The jury freed three defendants, Jeff Burum, Paul Biane and Mark Kirk, and the indictment of the fourth defendant, Jim Erwin, was dropped after a separate jury met a dead end. Some jurors say they believe key prosecution witnesses have lied and questioned why the case was taken in the first place. As early as 2018, all defendants have filed separate claims against the county and state of California, citing a malicious prosecution and seeking a total of more than $ 100 million for damages.
Human trafficking
In 2009, Ramos created the Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation (C.A.S.E.). CASE. bring together the partnerships of regional ministries including District Prosecutor's Office, Sheriff's Department, Experimental Department, School Superintendent, Department of Children and Family Services, Public Defender, and Department of Health Behavior, to raise awareness and provide enhanced areas and communities. resources for the victims. He campaigned strongly in favor of Proposition 35 whose voters were passed in 2012 and who created the Human Trafficking Prosecuting Unit. In an effort to reduce the demand for trafficking victims, Ramos started the Stop the John Project in 2013 and began releasing names and photographs of defendants convicted for solicitation in San Bernardino County. In September 2014 Ramos made a blog post mistaking the popular BDSM web page "The Slave Registry" for human trafficking/prostitution ahead.
Gang
Since the Gang Office program started in July 2005, 7,673 gang cases related to gangs have been proposed. Two of those charged are now on the verge of death of California. There are 4,583 state prison sentences that add up to 31,893 years, plus 153 lifetimes.
Despite the increasing number of cases filed, the number of gangs doubled to 719 in San Bernardino County in early 2008 from 360 estimates in 2005. The number of active gang members also rose to 16,193 from about 13,000 within the same timeframe. In October 2011, San Bernardino County had the third-highest gang population in any country in America, according to a report released by the FBI.
Prevention and intervention
Through the Criminal Justice Juvenile Justice Act (JJCPA), the DA office is implementing the "LET" Project, which works to increase attendance at school for previously truant students, prevent future easing and help make education a priority for them. youth risk. One step taken by Ramos to solve the problem of truancy is to arrest parents for failing to solve this problem.
Ramos also has various other programs such as Camp Good Slight and Gang Resistance Intervention Partnership (GRIP). Camp Good Duka is a three day sad camp for children and teenagers whose lives have been devastated by an act of murder or suicide. The San Bernardino District Prosecutor's Office, in partnership with Children's Hospital of Loma Linda University, offers camps.
Cruelty to animals
In 2011, along with the Humane Society of the United States and the Fontana Veterinary Service, Ramos released a short film to raise awareness about the dangers of cockfighting. To focus more on animal torture, in 2012 Ramos created the San Bernardino Wildlife Rescue and Torture Task Force, a multidisciplinary collaboration designed to raise public awareness, education and prosecution of animal fights and abuse in San Bernardino County.
One of the most significant cases of animal torture in San Bernardino County history occurred in 2008. As a result of a camouflaged video taken by the Humane Society of the United States, the San Bernardino District Prosecutor Office filed a criminal suit. In the video, workers at Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. from Chino is seen using a forklift blade to crash into "fallen" cows that are too sick to walk. At one point, a worker could be seen stabbing a cow in the eye with a stick, while other workers sprayed water into the noses of another cow with a powerful hose - all in an attempt to force the wounded animal back to their feet and go to slaughter.
As a result of the tape, the USDA ordered the largest ever pullout of beef in US history - 143.4 million pounds - and said the meat had been used in school lunches and food aid programs.
References
External links
- San Bernardino District Prosecutor Office
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